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` I Be it known that I, HENRY B. WILLcoX, vof Troy Mills, in the county of Delaware,` andState of Pennsyl nia, have-invented a new and improved Fruit-Box; and I do hereby declare that the following is a-full`,`c1ea`r d exact `description thereof, which will enable othersskillcd in the art to make and` liseothe same, reference ing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciticatiominwhich-q Figure 1 represents a perspective View' of my improved fruit-box.

I i i Figure 2 s a. vertical central elevation of theame.

` Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding` parts. l s t T-hisinvention relates to a new manner of constructing polygonal fruit-boxes, and consists `in` solproviding p .and lirranging the sideboards thatthe bottom is held between the same, and is prevented" from moving u down: withoutprojecting beyond the outside of the box. -The whole box is or inay be made of"` pasteboard, l

` bottom and sides being perforated, to allow proper ventilation. s i i ,A represents the bottom ofthe box. The same is made of pasteboard, of suilcientlthickness and p to support the weight of-the berries or fruit that may be placed in the box. It` is made-of octagonal `:polygonal shape, of the exact dimensions of the inside of the box. .It is perforated, as is clearlyI l B B are th'e sidesof the box. The same are formed of a single strip oi' pasteboard or ot :riahwhich is as wide as the box is to be high, and as long as the circumference of thebox `through about h'alfits thickness on the inside, in the lines where the corners of the b is stamped, `so as to provide the necessary perforations, and also to make an incision" each box, at n'height above t'heflowci` edge of the stripat wh'ich the bottom is tobe hel parallel with thelower and upper edge of' the strip, and about half an inch long, ,more orless t their? ends l arepincisions, which areat right angles with the horizontal cut, whereby two lugs, ortratheriilap dbi, a'rrformed "one `above and one below the horizontal incision, as is clearly shown in th`edrawings. `QTlie sa `iiapsare th `bent in, as shownpso as to stand at angles of about forty-five degrees from the body of `the strip. Thestrip then bentinto the required form, fand its ends are united by metallic or other gIhooks" `or claspsrc o, asshow v www 'f o Then `the bottom is lnserted intothe box, `so as to 'come between the flaps a and b, which are all 1n the sam `level with each other in each oi' the sides of the box.` The upperiiaps will yield to'plet the bottom npon the `lower flaps, and will then spring out again, so that the said bottom will be firmly heldybetweenthe iiiapsaand firmly resting `upon the former, as shown. As the bottom is, or at least those" portions of it which areto `be held between the iiaps are, exactly fitted into the inside of the box, no portion of the bottom willproject beyond l the outside of the same, and the boxes can thus be packed very close.

Making fruit-boxes of pasteboard, without any `seams or sewing, and without theiuse ofipape l Ior othe lining, is new, and `such boxes will be considerably cheaper than the wooden boxes which arenJwnsually mad .Havinpgf` thus described my invention, `whatI claim as new, and desire'to securcbyiLetters;Patent,isf l Securing the bottom of a fruit-box to its sides bymeans of aps a and which aredbrnied` respectively boveand belowlthe bottom, by means of incisions into the sides of the box, substantially asand `fi'oxthe p pose hereinshown and described.

Witnesses:

` 2 WM. H; PALMER,

` Geenen McGowan.

n. B. WIIiLooX.` 

